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Okay, perhaps I live a bit too much in the virtual world, but I have yet to make the transition to having a Second Life (although some 5.2 million have done so).  Thus, I missed the momentous events as Global Warming effects swamped portions of the Second Life world.

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Today, Wired‘s Autopia published Plug-In Hybrids Weaken the Case for Hydrogen Vehicles.  It opens

The U.S. DOE continues to fund hydrogen research, a long term proposition that could be mute if plug-in hybrids become commercially successful.

Is this right? Are plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEVs) likely to make hydrogen OBE (overtaken by events)? [Read more →]

Growing up, Newsweek was the weekly news magazine coming into the house. Shows the value of those college discount programs. They caught my father with a great deal when he was 20 and, well, decades later … For the household — and I — well, Time was the second run in the competition for respect as a weekly news source.

This, however, is no longer the case.

While Time‘s cover is The Global Warming Survival Guide with many good articles, Newsweek … time after time … hands over its pages to Global Warming ignoramouses, skeptics, and outright deniers.

With Richard Lindzen’s Why So Gloomy?, Newsweek has sunk to a new low. [Read more →]

Perpetually, when the subject of any form of power comes up, someone will pipe in “well, but X gets lots of subsidies … it wouldn’t make sense without subsidies”.

Exxon-Mobil, for example, justifies its $0 (yes, ZERO DOLLARS) of investments in renewable power:

Exxon does not believe renewables are commercially viable on a significant scale without government incentives and opposes such incentives.

Cough … Cough …

Well, just where does wind stand in terms of subsidy? [Read more →]

Reuters has taken a look at Big Oil’s investments in renewable power and, well, haven’t found much that is Big about them … especially not Exxon-Mobil.

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In The Case for a Global Carbon Tax, Newsweek contributing editor Fareed Zakaria gets some basic facts wrong when it comes to energy. And, by doing so, he drives some wrong conclusions. 

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A key challenge to better electric vehicles, including an effective Plug-In Hybrid, is the development of better batteries.  Government financing and focus in stepping in.  In both Japan and the United States, recent announcements highlight this government role.

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Chevy is tantalizing those of us who wish for a better energy future dominated by American technology, American workers, and a stronger American

 economy.  The Chevy VOLT concept for a stylish, plug-in hybrid, would transform the automobile market while leaping the nation forward in our ability to reduce our dependence on (imported) oil.  [Read more →]

At times, we wonder who is reading over our shoulders. A discussion re Mike Strizki is followed a few days later by a Christian Science Monitor article.  A discussion here on plug-in hybrid school buses a little while ago and, well, the Christian Science Monitor publishes It’s a plug-in hybrid — and a school bus.  Hmmm … [Read more →]

Austin’s Mayor, Will Wynn, is a serious plug-in hybrid vehicle supporter.  And, he has been a strong advocate of PHEVs (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) from Austin to Washington, DC. “We have made our intentions clear that we want to pave the way for the plug-in hybrid …” [Read more →]